Hard Drive Detection
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:40 pm
Word up, the name's Kison
Anywho,
I just bought a new Seagate hard drive, with 250 Gigabytes of space. I planned on installing it as a slave drive so that I could put any large documents, media files, zips, or anything else on it so that if I ever needed to reinstall my master drive(40 gig Maxtor), I wouldn't have to use CDs or a network.
Anyway, I tried doing just that. I plugged the slave IDE into the drive, the power as well, and told me there was no OS running on my drive. I go into my BIOS, and it tells me that the Seagate(new) drive was the slave, as it should be, but the Maxtor(old) was not detected. I check the cords, they look good, so I reboot. It still can't find it. I tried hooking up the Maxtor by itself again, and realized that even though it has the MASTER plugged into it, it was coming up as SLAVE. Hello? McFly?
I did some other tests. I plugged the Seagate(new one) alone in as master, and it properly showed up as master. The seagate alone in slave comes up properly as slave. The Maxtor alone in master comes up, as I said before, as slave. When the Maxtor is in slave alone, it doesn't show up at all. I tried using a spare IDE cord with similar setups, and they all matched.
Now I really don't know what's going on here. It looks like this is the Maxtor drive's fault, as the Seagate seems to work as it should be. A friend told me to just mess around a bit and eventually it'd get it right. Well I tried different combos for about 2 hours and nothing has been accomplished but adding more confusion into my little brain. Wink Additionally I partitioned the Seagate using a Windows XP SP2 CD and used the NFTP(I think that's it) format before retrying to boot both drives.
Anywho, if anyone knows anything I could try, I'd appreciate it.
-Teh Kison!
Anywho,
I just bought a new Seagate hard drive, with 250 Gigabytes of space. I planned on installing it as a slave drive so that I could put any large documents, media files, zips, or anything else on it so that if I ever needed to reinstall my master drive(40 gig Maxtor), I wouldn't have to use CDs or a network.
Anyway, I tried doing just that. I plugged the slave IDE into the drive, the power as well, and told me there was no OS running on my drive. I go into my BIOS, and it tells me that the Seagate(new) drive was the slave, as it should be, but the Maxtor(old) was not detected. I check the cords, they look good, so I reboot. It still can't find it. I tried hooking up the Maxtor by itself again, and realized that even though it has the MASTER plugged into it, it was coming up as SLAVE. Hello? McFly?
I did some other tests. I plugged the Seagate(new one) alone in as master, and it properly showed up as master. The seagate alone in slave comes up properly as slave. The Maxtor alone in master comes up, as I said before, as slave. When the Maxtor is in slave alone, it doesn't show up at all. I tried using a spare IDE cord with similar setups, and they all matched.
Now I really don't know what's going on here. It looks like this is the Maxtor drive's fault, as the Seagate seems to work as it should be. A friend told me to just mess around a bit and eventually it'd get it right. Well I tried different combos for about 2 hours and nothing has been accomplished but adding more confusion into my little brain. Wink Additionally I partitioned the Seagate using a Windows XP SP2 CD and used the NFTP(I think that's it) format before retrying to boot both drives.
Anywho, if anyone knows anything I could try, I'd appreciate it.
-Teh Kison!